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1. suctioning peds?

   love2shop posted a topic in Pediatric

   I do homecare for a 3 year old with cronic respitory disstress. We do deep nasal suctioning with a yaunker (does everyone call it that??? it is like a big stick with a whole in the end to suck out the...

2. make a good palitive care nurse?

   love2shop posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

   So I have an interview next week on palitive care in our hospital. What shoud I be prepared to answer? I have been an LPN for 5 years but have delt very little with nursing skills. More supervise the...

3. how honest during interveiw

   love2shop posted a topic in Nursing Career

   I have been a LPN for 5 years. I have worked in Home Care the whole time. I am looking into other departments, the problem is I really don't know much. I fell like a new grad. They do things totally...

4. Torn between job offers

   love2shop replied to Mommy TeleRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

   The extra driving time would be about picking up an extra shift every 2 weeks. Is that worth the money? Just think though your work days would be all work and driving. Is that o.k. with

5. graduate from online program?

   love2shop replied to love2shop's topic in First Year After Licensure

   coolvibes-- So what did you think of it? Would you do it again? Was it really hard? My problem is there are many skills I have not done since nursing school and I am worried I will not

6. graduate from online program?

   love2shop posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   I currently have my LPN degree and am getting floated with all these offers for online LPN to BSN what do you think? Does it

7. job and personal life?

   love2shop posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   This might be a silly question...but how does working on OB affect your personal life? Has dealing with moms and babies even given you baby fever? I only floated a couple times up there and I already...

8. need advice

   love2shop replied to Rnita09's topic in Nursing Career

   I have a friend that works exculsively with agencies and she has to pretty much know before she starts to work. Orientation is basically just to show her around and explain that facilities policies....

9. LPN or RN? need advice

   love2shop replied to MelodyRNurse's topic in Nursing Career

   In an ideal world it would be good to be a cna first. But trainning is trainning. Once you get use to any job you can do it. Since you have had such a hard schedule so far I would say keep going. I...

10. laboring down?

    love2shop posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    how do you define laboring

11. Night shifts with a 6 month old baby

    love2shop replied to RN_Amanda's topic in Nursing Career

    Amanda ---I can so feel your pain. I am in the same boat as you. I just had a baby and was offered the job of a life time. I have been working for 4 years in a dept that is slow, boring, and get no...

12. sterile tech. questions

    love2shop posted a topic in General Nursing

    O.k. beleive it or not I am not a new nurse been working for 5 years. But this is something I can't figue out. In doing a deep trach suction how come we can put in a non sterile inner cannula?...

13. strange request?

    love2shop replied to love2shop's topic in Ob/Gyn

    On a lighter note to this whole sibling thing I would never have my child in with me. She loves to tell "personal family" things to everyone she meets. Like "daddy is constipated...do you know what...

14. Questions for Fargo, ND?

    love2shop replied to JDunRN71's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Lilly lover......I have been thinking about changing dept....I would like to go to OR or FBC. I know everyone says that those are the harder dept to get your foot in the door. How was it for you?...

15. strange request?

    love2shop replied to love2shop's topic in Ob/Gyn

    At our facility it is against policy (and enforced) to accept anything from the pt....like even a little peice of candy. This could be the real